01-07-2011, 11:45 AM
I have used Arma2TS few times in past, which was the predecessor for this, I guess? And now also the ACRE recently in one game session. I got the impression that it's not very reliable. First of all, the installation was way too much unnecessary hassle (getting right versions for the app, libs, configs, etc.) and to get them working on all players.
But ACRE has good sides too. Speaking through the PRC radio works very well, sounds like a proper radio quality, and has even the "squewk" sound effect. I'd imagine the ability to use different radio channels would be great for larger scale battles, and maybe even for splitting into several fireteams, but can't TS3 do that? At least TS2 could...
Absolutely best feature in ACRE is the direct speaking with 3D positional audio. You can hear people's voices from the direction they are in, and their lips move while speaking. Enhances the feeling of really being there with your teammates, and helps recognizing and locating them by just listening. But a little problem here is, that even with a small increase to the speaking person's distance, the sound gets too faded out. The distance/volume-drop ratio appears to be quite realistic, but when speaking in TS, people use the same volume level for all situations - they don't raise their voice when they get further away from the other persons, unlike in reality. So it sometimes get difficult to hear and understand each other. That destroys the TS3's advantage in great sound quality... and using the long-range radio for 50 meter distance would be just silly, or would it?
Maybe I just scratched the surface of this addon, and perhaps there is customizable settings, but I'm not so enthusiastic about it.
By the way, can players use ACRE by their own, or does it always have to be installed on the server side too?
But ACRE has good sides too. Speaking through the PRC radio works very well, sounds like a proper radio quality, and has even the "squewk" sound effect. I'd imagine the ability to use different radio channels would be great for larger scale battles, and maybe even for splitting into several fireteams, but can't TS3 do that? At least TS2 could...
Absolutely best feature in ACRE is the direct speaking with 3D positional audio. You can hear people's voices from the direction they are in, and their lips move while speaking. Enhances the feeling of really being there with your teammates, and helps recognizing and locating them by just listening. But a little problem here is, that even with a small increase to the speaking person's distance, the sound gets too faded out. The distance/volume-drop ratio appears to be quite realistic, but when speaking in TS, people use the same volume level for all situations - they don't raise their voice when they get further away from the other persons, unlike in reality. So it sometimes get difficult to hear and understand each other. That destroys the TS3's advantage in great sound quality... and using the long-range radio for 50 meter distance would be just silly, or would it?
Maybe I just scratched the surface of this addon, and perhaps there is customizable settings, but I'm not so enthusiastic about it.
By the way, can players use ACRE by their own, or does it always have to be installed on the server side too?